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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 5h

Because Christo-Fascist is a long ways from Christian.

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Scallion @scallionator.bsky.social · 7h

#abpoli

MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 8h

'“It is not too much to ask that the premier of Alberta demonstrate the same level of respect for the mayor of Calgary and Calgary city council that she demands from the prime minister,” he said."

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Braid: Upstart Calgary Party aims to boot the province out of city hall business

The Calgary Party and mayoral candidate Brian Thiessen say the big issue is provincial intrusion into city hall by Premier Danielle Smith.

calgaryherald.com

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albertaadvocate.bsky.social @albertaadvocate.bsky.social · 6h

A classroom could be made of any or many of the below. They are ALL worth a great PUBLIC education! #CdnEd #AbEd #AbLeg #AbPoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 6h

I expect “back to work “ legislation at the end of next week, whet or not teachers obey it may be another matter entirely.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 14h

[Follow up]: Just in case you might be thinking that the connections identified in the above article are "speculation":

thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

#abpoli #abpoli #alberta

Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation After Trump Win | The Tyee

The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank because of its influence on the president.

thetyee.ca

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't read this yet, read it. Understand that this year's municipal elections are an existential fight - figure out who the UCP's allies are and vote against them. Democracy matters.

#abpoli #ableg #alberta #yyccc #yyc #abed

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

thetyee.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

... and when Smaug burps on it, you have Charred Legolam!

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

Just what "problem" are the conservatives purporting to solve here?

If they have a problem with immigration, fine - let's have that conversation. This looks like a solution looking for a problem to solve.

#cdnpoli

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: The Conservatives are right: Canada should end birthright citizenship

We don’t have to follow Donald Trump in this effort – we can just follow the likes of Britain and France

www.theglobeandmail.com

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

The time for a pope to say that was 20 odd years ago ...

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

There's at least 5 premiers in Canada whose heads would implode when presented with this idea ...

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

So, in short, he knows he's been compromised and is admitting it.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 3d

There's a now disbarred lawyer in BC that would be happy to help out, I'm sure ... /snark

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 4d

This is a problem?

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 4d

Can someone explain exactly what ”problem” Ms. Garner thinks she is trying to solve? Because I’m not seeing “The Problem” here.

#cdnpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents

The Conservatives want to restrict birthright citizenship in Canada, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries.

www.ctvnews.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 4d

That is a likely outcome with the way these laws are being written.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, one of my first blog posts talked about a rising dark age; in 2012, I wrote on how conservatism was heading towards fascism under Harper; in 2025, it’s damned clear that fascism is here and it’s very very real.

Project 2025 is the manual for Trump, Smith, Poilievre, and others like them.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 5d

Danielle Smith giving interviews to The Rebel ... that tracks.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 5d

Prediction: Alberta will shove through back to work legislation shortly after the legislature resumes sitting on October 23.

Second prediction: It will declare that it is invoking S33

Third prediction: the back to work legislation will impose a "settlement".

#abpoli #ableg

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 5d

Alberta - and its government especially are exceptionally dense on these matters.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 5d

Oh - look at that ... so just over a week before the legislature resumes sitting -> so the government can claim "oh we negotiated, and the teachers were soooo unreasonable" ... as they ram through back-to-work legislation.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 5d

It's important to realize that "review" here has to go way deeper than if it was a human creation ... and that's a problem.

Humans tend to "skim" when reviewing, and it would be very easy to overlook an important factual error. Professionals using AI need to change their thinking around review.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 6d

Oh - the Justice Minister just told the provinces to go pound sand:

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli

Justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Justice Minister Sean Fraser rejected calls from five premiers for Ottawa to withdraw its legal argument calling for limits on the use of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause.

www.cbc.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 6d

Yes - it was definitely different (not absent, just different)

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